As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously... called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... my last work is no sooner on the stands than letters come, suggesting a subject. The grandmothers of strangers are crying from... the grave, it seems, for literary recognition; it is bewildering, the number of salty grandfathers, aunts and uncles that languish unappreciated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a herm...it crab or a snail.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Labour and poverty, so abhorred by every one, are the certain lot of the far greater number: And those few privileged persons, who... enjoy ease and opulence, never reach contentment or true felicity. All the goods of life united would not make a very happy man: But all the ills united would make a wretch indeed; and any one of them almost (and who can be free from every one), nay often the absence of one good (and who can possess all) is sufficient to render life ineligible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, edu...cation, and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ... beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ... and at the same time attesting facts, performed in such a public manner, and in so celebrated a part of the world, as to render the detection unavoidable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,... to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you ha...ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »